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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Voter Turnout"”.
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Primary Systems and Voter Turnout: Measuring the Institutional Effect of Primary Type on Voter Turnout
Using the 1990, 1994 and 1998 Congressional mid-term elections, this study looks at whether the type of primary system in a person's state has an effect on whether or not that person will vote in the general election. The five types of primary systems (closed, semi-closed, semiopen, open and …
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Liberalizing American Voting Laws: Institutionally Increasing Voter Turnout
… analyzing the impact voting laws have on voter turnout in national elections in the United States. I analyzed voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2010 off year election in all fifty states to see if voting restrictions declined turnout. My results show evidence that the …
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… political information also affects potential voters and their decision to vote or not to vote. A public signal on candidate quality can decrease voter turnout preventing elections from revealing the private information of potential voters on candidate quality. Finally, political campaigns …
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Turnout twist : higher voter turnout in lower-level elections
… claimed that subnational elections record lower voter turnout than national elections in most democracies. Contrary to this conventional wisdom, Japanese municipal elections often record considerably higher voter turnout than national elections, particularly in small towns and villages. Why is …
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Online Voting Platforms and the Future of Voter Turnout
As low-voter-turnout continues to be a concern for the political system in the U.S., the idea online voting platforms (OVPs), to reduce access and use barriers, has been debated. Lowlevel elections in several states across the country have experimented with OVPs through U.S.based internet voting …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
This paper investigates economic inequality and voter turnout in a sample of 21 industrialized democracies using a pooled time series model of elections from 1970 to 1999. The findings demonstrate a connection between inequality and voter turnout wherein increases in inequality lead to reductions …
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An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860
… pathbreaking investigation of New York voters in the 1844 election initiated a new approach to the study of popular voting behavior. Benson's book postulates that political party membership during the second American party system was determined by religious and cultural factors. Jensen, …
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
… types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why an individual may or may not be more likely to vote with the inclusion of ballot initiatives, I focus on aggregate …
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The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016
… on which natural disasters impacted minority voters--Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Two or more races; if disasters affected the individual elections. Natural disasters provide mixed results on US election outcomes depending upon disaster, election, and the minority group.</p>
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An examination of election administration and voter turnout in Nigeria (2011- 2019)
… platform is witnessing a decline in the rate of voter turnout, which is a global challenge facing election throughout the world. The reality of Nigeria indicates that since 2011 to 2019, general elections in Nigeria have been characterized by declining voter turnout in all elections between the …
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Voter turnout in Saskatchewan : how important are civic education and community participation?
Voter participation among Saskatchewan’s citizens has decreased in both federal and provincial elections, especially in the past decade or so, and especially among 18-24 year olds. Provincially, turnout has fallen almost 20 percentage points over a four-year period. Saskatchewan voter turnout in …
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People, Places, and Politics: Voter Turnout in the United States, 1828 to 1992
A more complete and refined understanding of turnout rates at the state level requires that political and other contextual factors to be woven into the analysis. In this paper, I use the comprehensive nature of these data and the extensive analysis of specific contextual variables to suggest a …
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An explanation of declining voter turnout: the case of Richmond, Virginia, 1880-1913
Voter turnout in the United States began to decline at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, and since then, turnout has not returned to the high percentages that were commonplace in the 1860s and 1870s. Numerous scholars point to the late 1800s and early 1900s as the era …
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Democracy in Unequal Times: How Economic Inequality Influences Voter Turnout, Party Polarization, and Union Density
… happens because inequality depresses low-income voters’ participation. This changes the composition of the core constituencies on the left, leaving redistributive positions with less support. The left moderates, while the right stays put. This leads to convergence on economic issues. The second …
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Switch: A Case Study of Voter Turnout following Electoral Change in a School Board Election
… between a school board electoral structure and voter turnout levels. In particular, the author hypothesizes that ward-based elections due to their inherent smallness have higher voter turnout levels than at-large elections. In crafting such a relationship a mixed-method approach was used …
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Participatory resources and African American voter turnout: A comparative analysis of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
… functionalism, the thesis conceptualizes that voter turnout can be evaluated by comparing socioeconomic, socioreligious, and political variables. In analyzing data from the 1992 and 1996 National Election Studies, the thesis reveals that Whites disproportionately have a higher rate of voter …
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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment as a Teachable Moment: Young Adult Voter Turnout in U.S. Elections, 1972-2006
… electoral reform journey. The persistently low voter turnout of newly enfranchised 18-20 year-olds since then not only is troubling from a democratic perspective but also is puzzling in light of the rapidly rising educational attainment of this age group during the same period. In this …
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Political Participation in a Digital Age: An Integrated Perspective on the Impacts of the Internet on Voter Turnout
… Internet voting is the effect it could have on voter participation. Numerous studies have called for research on the impact of technology on voter turnout; however, existing literature has yet to develop a comprehensive model of the key factors that influence Internet voting adoption. In light …
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It's in the mail : the effect of vote by mail balloting on voter turnout and policy outcomes in U.S. elections
… effect of a 10 percentage point increase in turnout across all types of elections. This finding is consistent with past research, which states that the increase in turnout occurs because Vote By Mail, similar to other "ease of voting" reforms, reduces the cost of voting. As an alternative …
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Election Reform: Does Early Voting Impact Turnout In Municipal Elections?
<p>Turnout in the United States is low, especially in municipal elections. Early voting laws, which have been adopted by over half of the states within the United States, offer voters a chance to cast a ballot over a longer period of time thereby lowering the cost of voting. Early voting includes …
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